Fall PD for KES 2012

Marzano's What works in classroom Instruction 2000

In this session we will look at Marzano's text and how it may apply to particular lessons and goals that we may have for a class or a group of students. The text, written in 2000 by a team of writers, provides possible approaches that teachers may take to achieve goals such as "linking effort and results" or "non-linugistic representations of knowledge". Each chapter provides the theory behind the approches, concrete examples and then the data that supports each particular approach, In this year's session each teacher will pick a section and see how one approach might be used in his or her classess. The teachers will share their reactions to the particular section as well as how they will modify the particular approach.

Classroom Technology and Marzano

The Sustainable Classroom Project critically assessed the application of Marzano's ideas and approaches in classrooms with smartboards and other pieces of technology such as document cameras and clickers. There are nine case studies from nine teachers who critically review their application of Marzano's approaches using technology to teach various topics and lessons. The first file below will link to all the case studies and two case studies have been uploaded as well. The pages are no longer accessible on the web, but the Internet Wayback Machine made it possible to access them; sort of like having one's own digital Tardis.